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The small group evaluations were presented by the teacher. The small group was comprised of 28 high school students that are currently taking the same health course that will use these lessons in the future. The lessons were presented during a normal class time period. Students went through a revised rough draft of the lessons, and then filled out a short questionnaire at the end of the lesson. Students were allowed to mark on the instructions to provide feedback, as well as ask the teacher questions as needed. The teacher also observed how the students reacted to the materials that they were presented.
As discussed in the one-on-one evaluation, the size of the small group evaluation was increased in order to gain a more in-depth response from the students. This turned out to be a great idea, as we were finally able to receive good feedback from some students. Not all lessons received extensive feedback, however. Specific lessons with issues are noted below. All lessons had some words that were circled for clarity issues by students, but there were not many of these.
Objectives:
- Determine if the changes made based on the one-to-one evaluation are effective
- Identify any further problems that learners may have.
- Determine if the learners can use the instruction without interacting with the instructor.
Lesson One:
Students continued to display confusion over the concept of a blog. many would state that they didn't know what a blog was, "except for the blog that I use in MySpace." I will use this feedback to add additional warm-up exercises for the teacher in this lesson. Teachers will be told to give a basic explanation of blogs and connect to real life examples that are popular with the students. Also, on this lesson I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10.
Lesson Two:
In this lesson, and several that follow, I noticed that many students had a problem understanding the word "analyze." Due to this, I added some instructions for the teacher to go over the concept of analysis as a warm-up exercise to this lesson. The teacher pointed out that most students have done this before, but they might need reminders. Also, on this lesson I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10.
Lesson Five:
This is another lesson were
I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10.
Lesson Six:
This is another lesson were
I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10.
Lesson Nine:
This is another lesson were
I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10.
Lesson Ten:
This lesson had several links that were very long. Students were apparently confused that they could just click the links, and this caused some panic. Many thought that they would have to type the entire link in the browser. In order to cut down on this confusion, I removed the complete links that were spelled out and replaced them with a title mask. this means that students will see the title of the page for the link, but will go to the page when they click on it.
Lesson Eleven:
This is another lesson were
I decided to change the links from a literal spelling out of the address to a title mask - see the feedback on lesson 10. |
